Ukrobbiej

I usually find that a little review on their Facebook page soon sorts things out. I had to do this with gear4music once when I wasn't happy with the service. A little review of my experience on Facebook and I soon had the manager emailing me and pulling out all the stops. I have bought from GAK before, but usually face to face, and they are generally good blokes. The only time they weren't was, ironically in the bass department, where I think the guy was annoyed that I was interrupting his practice time to ask about fretless basses. That was just my perception though. No doubt, you have been extremely badly treated in your case, and they should have sorted it better. Rob

You might like to try la Bella gold nylons. Quite a lot looser than other nylon tape wound strings. Robbie

Yes, this j200 style body is, I think, going to replace the Okement. Si and I decided to call this one the Lowman (which is a river somewhere I. The south west- Cornwall I think). Not sure if Si has gone with this as an official model. The label still says Otter, but between the boys and I this is a Lowman. The top is Engelman, the back and sides are Bubinga, and the neck walnut. Thentuners are hipshot, having a bit of a false start with some absolutely crap Schaller da Vincis. Here is another gratuitous picture [URL=http://s1180.photobucket.com/user/ukrobbiej/media/Lowman%20Bass/March%202016%20Rob%20Bass%202_zps5gusrmw6.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x413/ukrobbiej/Lowman%20Bass/March%202016%20Rob%20Bass%202_zps5gusrmw6.jpg[/IMG][/URL] And this is what the beast sounds http://youtu.be/DuqCBgLBWkM

Not quite an otter- it is their new Gibson J200 body shape. [URL=http://s1180.photobucket.com/user/ukrobbiej/media/Lowman%20Bass/Rob%201_zpse0madjmd.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x413/ukrobbiej/Lowman%20Bass/Rob%201_zpse0madjmd.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Hope that picture worked. It's a wonderful thing! I've two two other custom Brooks as well, both Tavy, Robbie

First of all, sorry if this breaks any forum rules. If I need to post this in classifieds then I will. I have a set of la Bella deep talking 750 g strings. Gold white nylon tape wound. I had them very briefly on my Brook acoustic bass when I was trying out different strings. I decided they were far too light for me. Bear in mind they are 50 to 105, they certainly feel a lot lighter. I would have gone for a heavier set- in fact I think Brook have a set in their workshop waiting for me, but since the 760 set is massively thicker, I don't really want to go the whole hog and widen the nut slots. I have since settled on D addario EXP phosphor bronze. Very nice! Anyway, the 750g set were on my bass for about a week. Does anyone want them? It would be nice if someone covered my postage expenses but otherwise I am willing to let them go to someone who would like to just try them. My bass is 34" scale length. The strings were trimmed a bit, but should easily still fit most basses. They are still very good nick. Perhaps if someone really likes them and makes good use of them they would consider a donation to a cancer charity- I have an old friend this week to the disease. Robbie

Yeh, bolt on necks used to be a feature of the Tacoma basses. Found a YouTube clip of them, but it is a shame that the demo is only of the plugged in sound. Would love to know what these sound like purely acoustically.

Interesting that Bubinga is on this list. I always thought that this wasn't quite as endangered. I have two acoustic instruments with bubinga back and sides, an acoustic guitar and a bass.

Maybe I'm a bit behind with this news , but I was browsing the Spector website and noticed this new acoustic bass: http://www.spectorbass.com/TimbreSeries As the owner of a very nice acoustic bass guitar, I'm quite interested in this particular species of bass. These look remarkably like the Tacoma Thunder chief basses thatbare no longer in production, but are spoken of in very reverential terms whenever the topic of acoustic basses that "work" comes up.. Robbie